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[ad_1] The state of New York is investing $20,000 into an anti-human trafficking education program in Rochester. Angels of Mercy is a not-for-profit organization in North Winton Village. It says it supports survivors of domestic and sexual violence, human trafficking and other life-controlling issues. It also says it provides support for women in recovery, those returning from incarceration or those who have been homeless and are getting back on their feet. With this funding, the organization says it will expand its services and outreach. Angels of Mercy says it has educated 8,000 women, boys and girls in the Finger Lakes…

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[ad_1] By Casey Hall, Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -Apple CEO Tim Cook met on Wednesday with China’s Minister for Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong during a visit to Beijing this week, the ministry said in a statement. During the meeting, Jin told Cook that he hoped Apple (NASDAQ:) would continue to deepen its presence in China, increase investment in innovation, grow with Chinese companies and share the dividends of high-quality development, the statement showed. Apple did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The trip is Cook’s second to China this year. His posts on the X-like…

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[ad_1] Philip Morris International (PM) has quietly been one of the best performing stocks in the market over the last three months. This strong outperformance comes after several years of sideways action in the stock as tobacco stocks fell out of favor for institutional investors. But with the proliferation of smokeless products like vapes and most notably Zyn, Philip Morris as well as other incumbent tobacco stocks have again become winning stocks.The success of this pivot towards smokeless products was further reaffirmed Tuesday morning, as Philip Morris International posted record quarterly earnings. Sales beat estimates by 2.3% and increased 8.4%…

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[ad_1] By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Gold prices jumped to record high and the dollar was on the rise again on Wednesday, keeping the pressure on the yen and the euro, while stocks in Asia stuttered as investors were reluctant to place major bets ahead of a hotly contested U.S. election. The shifting expectations around how fast and deep the Federal Reserve will cut rates have also hurt risk sentiment, with traders now anticipating the U.S. central bank to be measured in its easing. That has taken U.S. Treasury yields to a three-month peak and the dollar to multi-month…

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[ad_1] By Ben Blanchard and Roger Tung TAIPEI (Reuters) -A real Chinese blockade of Taiwan would be an act of war and have far-reaching consequences for international trade, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Wednesday after last week’s drills by China that practiced such a scenario. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past five years staged almost daily military activities around the island, including war games that have practised blockades and attacks on ports. Taiwan’s government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims. China’s latest war games around the island, carried out last week, included simulating…

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[ad_1] COP16, the global biodiversity summit, kicked off this week in Cali, Colombia at a time when global threats to nature are becoming ever more severe. Amid climate change and habitat loss, the World Wildlife Fund reports that the wildlife populations it monitors have declined by 73% since 1970. The extent of the crisis is such that many scientists fear the Earth is heading for a sixth ‘mass extinction’ – the first since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.Policymakers gathering in Cali are looking to implement targets set two years at COP15 in Montreal,…

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[ad_1] LEIDEN, Netherlands and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ProQR (NASDAQ:) Therapeutics N.V. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary Axiomer™  RNA editing technology platform, today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 18,000,000 ordinary shares (the Offering) at a public offering price of  $3.50 per share, for total gross proceeds of $63.0 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by ProQR. All of the shares are being offered by ProQR.  In addition, ProQR has granted the underwriters…

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[ad_1] A walkway with sign of subway line in a Tokyo subway station.Bruce Yuanyue Bi | The Image Bank | Getty ImagesShares of Japanese subway operator Tokyo Metro rose almost 45% Wednesday after a stellar IPO.The company had raised 348.6 billion yen ($2.3 billion) in the largest initial public offering in Japan in six years. Shares were priced at the top-end of the IPO price band of 1,100 yen to 1,200 yen.Tokyo Metro is one of Japan’s leading subway companies and the largest operator in Tokyo. The company is currently owned jointly by Japan’s national government and the Tokyo metropolitan…

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[ad_1] By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Gold prices jumped to record high and the dollar was on the rise again on Wednesday, keeping the pressure on the yen and the euro, while stocks in Asia stuttered as investors were reluctant to place major bets ahead of a hotly contested U.S. election. The shifting expectations around how fast and deep the Federal Reserve will cut rates have also hurt risk sentiment, with traders now anticipating the U.S. central bank to be measured in its easing. That has taken U.S. Treasury yields to a three-month peak and the dollar to multi-month…

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